Enough is
enough people. These “Graduations” that
everyone is having is ridicules. Have
you lost your sense of reality? What
ever happened to encouraging a child to complete school so they could EARN a
Diploma and Graduate? Now we just hand
them out like participation trophies and we HURT our kids, not help them.
Your child did
NOT just graduate Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, or the Fifth Grade, just
like I did not, you did not, nor MY child did not. We were promoted to the next grade. We completed the task ahead of us for the
year and are moving toward the next task.
See, THAT is how school works.
A person should
“Graduate” at least once in their life, high school. If they are lucky perhaps they can graduate
from college or military training.
When I
graduated high school it was a bigger deal for my parents than it was for
me. Yes I worked hard and earned my
diploma but not getting it was no an option for them. I was to be the first of their children to
walk that stage. It was something my
father pushed me to do, reminding me that if I did not cross that stage it was
no one fault but my own. When I finally
did, after five long years, yes I said five, I was proud of myself. I never experienced that feeling before
because I had not earned it until then.
Every year I
was promoted to the next grade until I reached the ninth grade and failed it. I
was crushed, devastated, but no one gave me a pat on the head and said, “Oh
well kid. Here’s a trophy for trying.” That is not how the real world works and if
we do not prepare our kids for the real world it will devour them when they
enter it.
Webster defines
“Graduation” as the award or acceptance
of an academic degree or diploma and a “Diploma” is a document which shows that a person has
finished a course of study or has graduated from a school. Tell me what degree has a grade school child
earned?
Please stop robbing the full
experience of what it actually means to graduate. Once you “Graduate” you are ready to face the
world and concur it.
